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NAME

       apt-show-source - Lists source-packages.

DESCRIPTION

       This program parses the APT lists for source packages and the dpkg
       status file and then lists every package with a higher version number
       than the one installed.

       It may prove very useful if the "deb" entries in your APT sources.list
       point to stable and the "deb-src" entries point to unstable. With this
       program you are easily able to find out if there is a newer version of
       eg. Program XXXX in unstable.

COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS

       Optional command line parameters are the DPKG Status file to use, the
       path to APT’s list files and a package name.  There are also options to
       display: all source-packages, verbose messages, version-only and
       command-line help.

OPTIONS

       -stf FILE, --status-file=FILE

       Reads installed packages from FILE instead of /var/lib/dpkg/status.

       -ld DIRECTORY, --list-dir=DIRECTORY

       DIRECTORY specifies the path to APT’s list files, defaults to
       /var/lib/apt/lists/.

       -p PACKAGE, --package=PACKAGE

       Prints out the installed-package/source-package version Information for
       PACKAGE.

       --version-only

       Prints version only if used together with --package.

       -a, --all

       Prints out all available source-packages with version.

       -v, --verbose

       Prints out verbose messages.

       -h, --help

       Prints out command-line help.

AUTHOR

       Dennis Schoen, dennis@debian.org

SEE ALSO

       apt(1), dpkg(1)